Title
System for supporting web-based public debate using transcripts of face-to-face meeting
Abstract
We propose a public debate support system through iterative alternation of face-to-face meetings and Web-based debates. Web-based facilitation of public debates is suitable for complementary question and answering when the debate in face-to-face meetings is insufficient due to time restriction. Since transcripts of public meetings tend to be lengthy and specialized, sharing public concerns among citizens and stakeholders requires much time and effort. To solve this problem, we propose two approaches. First, supporting the sharing of public concerns with structuration of public debate based on rhetorical structure theory (RST). It enables a user to manually specify his/her intention of a question, e.g., the question requires more evidence. An intention tag is effective for facilitating public debate. Second, supporting reading with visualization of topic transition, using our developed SalienceGraph. Moreover SalienceGraph retrieves passages related to a transient topic from past meeting records or documents. These approaches support citizens and stakeholders in finding, tracking, and sharing public concerns.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-13033-5_32
IEA/AIE (3)
Keywords
Field
DocType
complementary question,public concern,developed saliencegraph,saliencegraph retrieves passage,web-based facilitation,web-based debate,public debate,face-to-face meeting,public meeting,public debate support system,web-based public debate
World Wide Web,Rhetorical Structure Theory,Visualization,Computer science,Face-to-face,Knowledge management,Probabilistic latent semantic analysis,Web application,RDF,Public debate,Alternation (linguistics)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6098
0302-9743
3-642-13032-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.41
14
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shun Shiramatsu16420.19
Jun Takasaki220.76
Tatiana Zidrasco321.44
Tadachika Ozono49627.88
Toramatsu Shintani526959.13
Hiroshi G. Okuno62092233.19